27.3053, Calls: Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Phonetics, Psycholing/Germany

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Subject: 27.3053, Calls: Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Phonetics, Psycholing/Germany

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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:20:41
From: Eva Reinisch [evarei at phonetik.uni-muenchen.de]
Subject: Abstraction, Diversity and Speech Dynamics

 
Full Title: Abstraction, Diversity, and Speech Dynamics 

Date: 03-May-2017 - 05-May-2017
Location: Ammersee near Munich, Germany 
Contact Person: Marianne Pouplier
Meeting Email: pouplier at phonetik.uni-muenchen.de
Web Site: http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/institut/veranstaltungen/abstraction-diversity-dynamics/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

Producing and perceiving speech involves the parallel transmission of numerous
types of signs or categories, both linguistic (e.g. words and their
constituent consonants and vowels) and indexical (social class, regional
affiliation, gender etc.). The production of speech also involves a
coordinated activity of some hundred muscles per second that is adapted to
speaking and situational contexts. While it has long become clear that the
linguistic and social as well as the cognitive and physical aspects of
speaking are tightly intertwined, quite how these multiple layers of semiotic
and signal aspects of speech are connected and how those connections may be
manifested differently in the world's languages and cultures remains poorly
understood. The aim of the conference is to advance the discussion on these
issues by bringing together scientists from various disciplines engaged in
research on areas such memory and its relationship to abstraction, feedback
and feedforward control systems, and modelling the association between
discrete categories and continuous speech dynamics. It is only with a deeper
understanding of the semiotic-signal association that breakthroughs can be
achieved in understanding how the sounds of language are acquired, in how
normal and disordered mechanisms of speech are related, and in the way that
social and linguistic information interact and are transmitted in speech
communication.

Invited speakers include:  

- Jan Edwards, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Esther Janse, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
- James McQueen, Radboud University
- Caroline Niziolek, Boston University


2nd Call for Papers:

We invite submissions on any of the following topics:

- Models of lexical access and the lexicon and their relationship to speech
perception and production
- The role of experience and social interaction for abstraction
- First and second language acquisition, lifelong learning, multilingualism
- Language dynamics over the lifespan of an individual as much as within a
speaker community
- The emergence of linguistic diversity and sound change from interactions
between speakers and hearers
- The link between perception and production and the role of feedback and
feedforward mechanisms for stability and change in phonological systems, and
their disruption in speech disorders
- Techniques for quantifying and categorizing large samples of dynamic speech
data
 
Abstract submission:

Abstracts are welcomed for poster or oral presentation. They should be no more
than 250 words + References. Submission is by email-attachment (pdf) only:
dynamics at phonetik.uni-muenchen.de.

In your e-mail, please make sure to include the following information:

- Title of your paper
- Name(s) of author(s)
- Affiliation (department and university)
- Preferred e-mail address (where notification of acceptance should be sent).

All abstracts must be written in English.
 
Important dates:

Conference Dates: 3-5 May 2017
Abstract submission opens 1 August 2016
Deadline for submission of abstracts 15 October 2016
Notification of acceptance: 20 December 2017
Registration Deadline: 1 February 2017

Organizers: Marianne Pouplier, Jonathan Harrington, Eva Reinisch




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